Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sister Princess Alexandra. After five years as an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders, Robin was training to be an advertising copywriter by day (at $40 a week), working as a pianist at night (at $84 a week). Soon Robin was taking Margaretha to dinner; once, dressed as Little Jack Horner, he took Margaretha (dressed as Little Red Riding Hood) to a ball sponsored by Princess Margaret. When Robin moved over to the cocktail bar at the posh Berkeley Hotel, Margaretha came and listened until he finished his 7-to-9-o'clock stint. Early this year he wrote...
...Intelligent Conservatism." Bald, hawk-faced Jack Knight, 62, is one of the most influential publishers in the U.S. A shrewd, cost-conscious businessman, he has long articulated a middle-of-the-road political philosophy which mirrors a broad cross section of business thinking; he calls it "intelligent conservatism." While his slick, tricked-up papers seem often to reflect the auditor more than the editor in Knight's nature, they are closely identified with their communities and powerful in local and national politics. (In Illinois politicians say that an endorsement by the Daily News is an automatic guarantee...
...supporter when he visited Ike in May 1952, Knight sensed immediately that Eisenhower "had a fresher and more modern approach." The publisher's vigorous support of Eisenhower earned him the President's "admiration and warm regard" -the phrase Ike wrote on the signed photograph that still faces Jack Knight's desk...
...easy to understand the relief it would give a reviewer to be able to pin some sort of label on the film. The director, Jack Garfein, and the scriptwriter, Calder Willingham--who reworked his own 1947 novel and his 1953 Broadway play, both called End As a Man-- appear infuriatingly unwilling to commit themselves about what they are doing. All that can be said with complete confidence is that, in a style which captures much of the spontaneity of a really first-rate documentary, they present a story which centers on the career of one Jocko De Paris, a cadet...
With his last semblance of depth gone, Coach Bill McCurdy threw a quartet of Bob Weil, Mike Robertson, Al Gordon, and Dick Wharton against Yale's Jack Halpern, Ed Holohan, Bob Skerritt, and John Slowik, Crimson anchorman Dick Wharton faced the impossible task of making up nearly twenty yards on a runner of Slowik's calibre. Yale won by fifteen yards in 3:19.2, a meet record. The varsity was caught...